In light of the dev silently blacklisting blahaj.zone, many of its users and several other instances, we have removed tesseract from the available lemmy front ends we offer.

  • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    30·
    3 days ago

    Now they’ve taken their whole site offline, presumably so they won’t have to answer any questions.

    Tea is just all over the damn floor at this point.

    …but like… what did they think was gonna happen? Did they think they were so clever that no one could figure it out? Even when it effectively broke functionality on sites that used it but were blocked? Like they couldn’t add in code to disable specific parts of it if it was deployed on one of those sites so they could keep the whole thing secret? Like just another little regex search string to ignore any users and sites that match the site domain as its rolling out, so they would keep using it and be none the wiser because it would work for them but continue to have its blocklist maintained and secret because it wouldn’t cause any problems.

    I hate that it takes me like zero effort to conceptualize a better way to have done this shady shit, but on the other hand I guess I’m just glad they weren’t that clever.

    EDIT: Upon reflection, I do wonder if this was at least partially vibe coded, because LLMs don’t have forethought and can’t plan ahead for contingencies like that. Because it also seems like a no-brainer that it would lead to configuration failures if deployed on one of the sites that is blocked.

    • SatyrSack@quokk.auEnglish
      14·
      3 days ago

      EDIT: Upon reflection, I do wonder if this was at least partially vibe coded, because LLMs don’t have forethought and can’t plan ahead for contingencies like that. Because it also seems like a no-brainer that it would lead to configuration failures if deployed on one of the sites that is blocked.

      The dev was quite vocal about being against LLM usage. Most notably, I remember their April Fool’s Day post about an update that adds a bunch of AI features. The post was obviously just a big joke, full of disparaging comments about LLMs. With that said, that was April (maybe even 2025, I can’t remember). It’s possible that their opinion had changed in the time since. But I doubt it, personally.

      EDIT: It was 2025.

      Canonical link: https://dubvee.org/post/3069664

      Mirror: https://lemmy.world/post/27634335

          • birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone
            7·
            2 days ago

            I’ve tagged you as “Greatest shitposter” and tbh I could see you doing that lmao.

            But … where is TotallyJessica?

          • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
            2·
            2 days ago

            Yeah it might make more sense instead of doing the bit at all times to set up an alert or something for key words or phrases that would get Nicole to want to comment. You could potentially have a big log of randomized responses built into a bot to just auto-respond, and then you don’t have to do the bit at all, but you’d also have to take care to make sure the bot wasn’t so intrusive that it was as annoying as the “real” Nicole.